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Tricia Seow

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Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow @ Max Planck UCL.

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Tricia Seow @seowxft.bsky.social · Jun 3

🎈Had the honour to talk about confidence and doubt in OCD on The OCD Conversations last week!

In partnership with Orchard OCD:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLVQ...

The Orchard OCD Conversations: Doubt In OCD

YouTube video by MadeOfMillions

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · 7d

Come and say hi to @seowxft.bsky.social @floorburghoorn.bsky.social @lenarddome.bsky.social & @kenzakdr.bsky.social who will be demonstrating our brain explorer app and research at the @medresfdn.bsky.social stand at New Scientist Live event in London
@uclqsion.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social

Medical Research Foundation @medresfdn.bsky.social · 7d

New Scientist Live 2025 is taking place next weekend! ✨

📍 18-19 October | Excel London

We're thrilled to be returning to the exhibition once again! Visit us at stand C20, where you can meet our wonderful staff volunteers and world-class researchers.

➡️ See what we've got planned: shorturl.at/dEVmn

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Claire Gillan @clairegillan.bsky.social · Jul 1

We @smfleming.bsky.social, Marion Rouault and @seowxft.bsky.social and I) have posted a reply osf.io/preprints/ps... to a preprint that recently raised concerns about the validity of associations between mental health and metacognition from online studies. I hope you can take the time to read it.

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Tricia Seow @seowxft.bsky.social · Jun 3

🎈Had the honour to talk about confidence and doubt in OCD on The OCD Conversations last week!

In partnership with Orchard OCD:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLVQ...

The Orchard OCD Conversations: Doubt In OCD

YouTube video by MadeOfMillions

www.youtube.com

Reposted by Tricia Seow

Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · May 14

#OCD is a understudied disorder, meaning that we know way too little about the underlying (brain) processes.
We have thus built the Brain Explorer app www.brainexplorer.net where everyone can easily contribute to understanding OCD.
#MentalHealthAwareness @tueneurocampus.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Brain Explorer - Test your brain power

The brain explorer app for Apple and Android tests your brain functions and helps researchers to understand the brain. Explore your brain power and how brain functions are important for mental health.

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Tobias Hauser @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social · May 13

It's #MentalHealthAwareness week - time for facts: OCD is not about being tidy. It’s a serious mental health condition rooted in brain processes — and we’re studying it.
Learn more on OCD & the Brain:
ocdandthebrain.com
@ocdaction.bsky.social @tueneurocampus.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

OCD and the Brain

A knowledge hub designed by researchers, charities and people living with OCD to make the latest brain research on OCD more accessible.

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Tricia Seow @seowxft.bsky.social · Mar 19

Lastly, we see that confidence alterations predict anxiety-depression symptoms very well, but compulsivity likely has other influences beyond confidence (which is important!). There is much more to unravel with this complex construct :) (4/4)

Tricia Seow @seowxft.bsky.social · Mar 19

We also saw heterogeneous confidence patterns across the local to global metacognitive hierarchy in compulsivity versus a lowered confidence effect in anxiety-depression at all levels - again, irrespective of cognitive domain. (3/4)

Tricia Seow @seowxft.bsky.social · Mar 19

We find that (local) overconfidence was linked to compulsivity regardless of whether it was about memory or perception… is the transdiagnostic approach revealing overshadowing effects of underconfidence in anxiety-depression in memory as well? (2/4)

Tricia Seow @seowxft.bsky.social · Mar 19

Paper out in PLOS Mental Health 2 weeks ago 🙈 but better late than never! Collab with @smfleming.bsky.social and @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social. We investigated how confidence is altered in transdiagnostic compulsivity across memory and perception, as memory confidence is typically lowered in OCD. (1/4)

UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences @uclbrainscience.bsky.social · Mar 6

New research from @uclqsion.bsky.social reveals that underconfidence is linked to anxiety and depression, while overconfidence is linked to compulsivity. Understanding these connections can help improve mental health treatments.

Underconfidence linked to anxiety-depression and overconfidence linked to compulsivity in new study

A new study from UCL researchers has found that metacognitive biases in anxiety-depression and compulsivity extend across perception and memory.

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